City Life

Turning heads for ‘Turban Day’

The Tauranga Sikh community is hosting its third 'Turban Day' at the Tauranga waterfront this Saturday, October 3, from 11.30-2pm. While it's an opportunity... Read More

Art has been set free

Seventy artists unleashed more than 400 original works on the public this week as the Tauranga Society of Artists finally got to hold its big event, originally... Read More

A mountain to climb

Les Marsh plans to climb Mauao on his 100th birthday. He is keeping fit each day by doing laps of the garden at Radius Althorp retirement village where... Read More

Allowance ends, pressure remains

Spring is the air and for some of the most vulnerable members of the community, it means a drop in income. On October 1 the Winter Energy Payment ended... Read More

Greener pastures for Matua bowls

A $70,000 grant from the New Zealand Community Trust will help Bowls Matua convert a second grass green to a synthetic surface and to re-surface an existing one. A... Read More

Workshops and events replace festival

The Multicultural Festival 2020 initially re-scheduled for October 10 has now been cancelled. Instead, smaller events and workshops will be held that address... Read More

Remembering those loved and lost

Hononga, kōrero and manaaki, or connect, communicate and care are the words that undergird a special space and time set aside for people to honour and remember... Read More

Telling the story

He's trailed behind Edmund Hillary in the mountains of Nepal and followed in Charles Upham's footsteps through Europe. Cartoonist Tom Scott is now bringing... Read More

Tracy Livingston

Tracy Livingston represents the NZ Outdoors Party and has very clear environmental and social goals for Tauranga. Her degree in Applied Science underscores... Read More

The art of visual merchandising

A perfectly placed necklace or vase in a window can be eye catching enough to draw you into a store but what many people don't realise is that every piece has... Read More

Only separated by 100 years

Rest home resident Rose Jacob and primary school student Faith Schurink share a birthday, albeit 100 years apart. On Saturday last week the pair celebrated together... Read More

Ladies start your engines

There's just two rules to this club: you need to be a 'girl' and you have to have a car. Formed just three months ago by Tauranga-based woman Shona Sharp,... Read More